It's really sad that some people think RT is a legitimate news source.

[MannyGoldstein]

It's even sadder that it probably *is* about as legitimate as any other news source these days. Even my beloved NY Times seems to have become somewhat of a mouthpiece for the White House.

Sigh.

[Deep13]

1. what's "RT?" nt

[NuclearDem]

2. Russia Today.

[Tx4obama]

6. Ex-RT Anchor Liz Wahl: RT 'Not About the Truth, It's About Promoting a Putinist Agenda'

RT = Russia Today

Ex-RT Anchor Liz Wahl: RT ‘Not About the Truth, It’s About Promoting a Putinist Agenda’

Ex-RT anchor Liz Wahl made her first post-resignation TV appearance with Anderson Cooper Wednesday night, telling him that in the midst of the current Ukranian crisis, the “propagandist nature of RT came out in full force” and she couldn’t bring herself to work there anymore. She cited specific examples of biased news coverage, including a package about Neo-Nazis in the opposition. Wahl said “to portray the entire operation as being part of this right-wing extremist group is going along with the narrative that Vladimir Putin wants to go along with.”

She told Cooper there are lots of young people working at RT “eager to please management” and “there’s a form of self-censorship that you learn” in order to “present the Putin perspective.” She said, “RT is not about the truth, it’s about promoting a Putinist agenda.”

She dismissed RT’s statement that she resigned for attention, explaining she hesitated in the first place because of “fear of repercussion,” but found it “comforting” to hear positive feedback on social media. Wahl told The Daily Beast earlier today that the true agenda of RT’s propaganda is “making America look bad.”

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Post and VIDEO here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ex-rt-anchor-to-cooper-rt-%E2%80%98not-about-the-truth-it%E2%80%99s-about-promoting-a-putinist-agenda%E2%80%99/

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. In times of internatioal tensions I consider ALL media suspect

I know, I know I am a cynic.

[MannyGoldstein]

7. You know what else I hate?

No matter how outrageously cynical I am these days, the reality's always worse.

[Warren Stupidity]

10. no that is the correct approach.

[joshcryer]

24. Completely agree.

Even the internet becomes a place for insane shit. It's very hard to figure out the truth.

[PumpkinAle]

4. That's why you need to view news from different sources

- it is always interesting how things are reported depending on where you are sitting.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. “News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.” Lord Northcliffe

[Chan790]

20. That's not nearly cynical enough.

All the news is someone's propaganda.

[hrmjustin]

8. Well it is interesting to get different perspectives from different media.

I do however understand when I watch RT that I am getting the Putin line.

[RKP5637]

9. I used to find RT interesting, but anymore, it's too much of a mouth piece, can Radio Moscow

be in the future ... maybe Radio Putin.

[enough]

11. "Seems to have become"????? "Somewhat of a mouthpiece"

Can you remember as far back as the run-up to the second Iraq war?

[MannyGoldstein]

18. True, but all of those people got power-booted out

And the Times apologized. I thought it was a passing dark cloud.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

12. I agree about RT. Who do you consider to be legitimate news sources you rely on

to provide a fairly straight forward Who, What, When, Where, Why on important stories without shaving off the corners to create their own slant?

No one?

[MannyGoldstein]

16. I try to collect first-hand accounts

But that's a bunch of work.

[Chan790]

21. Nobody. n/t

[davekriss]

13. NY Times has always been a mouthpiece...

...for the powerful. See Manufacturing Consent (Herbert and Chomsky, 1988) and Necessary Illusions (Chomsky, 1989) to understand how it works.

Major media cannot stray far from implicit support of established power and stay on business.

[jsr]

22. All the News That's Fit to Feed the 99%.

[JVS]

14. What about Deutsche Welle or BBC?

[MannyGoldstein]

17. BBCs generally been OK

But I'm skittish given their current nutty government and their out-of-control spying apparatus. Will have to try Deutsche Welle.

[FarCenter]

19. There are also France24 and Reuters

Al Jazeera, Times of India, and People's Daily are from countries or regions not directly involved with the Ukraine-Russia issue.

A good rule of thumb is to follow news via countries not involved directly in the story. The internet is a lot more convenient that DXing was.

[Autumn]

15. I don't see a lot of difference between their media and the one we have.

Both shovel the propaganda.

[Cali_Democrat]

23. So you think the NY Times is a mouthpiece for the White House?

Funny...Republicans say the same thing.